Date of source: Thursday, September 11, 2014
President Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī has issued a law that establishes Bayt al- Zakah (House of alms).
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2014
The grand imām, Dr. Ahmad al- Tayyib, al- Azhar Shaykh, has met with the two tribes of Aswan (Banī Hilāl and al-Dabūdiyah) in the Azhar.
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Ministry of Endowments agreed with Dār al- Iftā yesterday to form a joint committee that include members of the Ministry and the Dār and all the agencies of the Azhar in order to respond to religious allegations and doubts
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
انتقد الدكتور أحمد الطيب، شيخ الأزهر، ما سماه «الانحياز الأمريكى الكامل لإسرائيل، فى القضية الفلسطينية، مؤكداً أن ذلك الانحياز يزيد من حالة الكره واليأس من عدالة الإدارة الأمريكية، وسيزيد من إصرار الأزهر على مناصرة ومساندة الشعب الفلسطينى لقيام دولته المستقلة وعاصمتها القدس.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Grand Imām, Dr. Ahmad al-Ṭayyib, yesterday received Shaykh Hamzah Aktan, Head of the Supreme Council for Religious Affairs in Turkey, who is currently visiting Egypt.
Among the matters they discussed was the Azhar's call for a meeting of Sunnī scholars in preparation for a dialogue meeting...
Date of source:
A statement from the Ministry of Interior said that Hasan Ra’fat Bashandī, who carried out the suicide bombing of Jawhar al-Qā’id Street in the al-Azhar area, was just a member of a four-man terrorist cell. That cell recruited and trained him and prepared the home-made explosive device used in the...
Date of source:
The security authorities sealed, once and for all, the files related to the recent terrorist operations in the downtown Cairo areas of the Azhar, al-Sayyida ‘Ā’isha and ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Riyād Square. These terrorist operations had appalled the citizens and resulted in a number of Egyptian and foreign...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2006
The author discusses
the problems facing the Hanging
Church as priests accuse a Christian businessman of encroaching on the sanctity of
the church by building
bazaars in front of the Mār Girgis church. Some point an accusing finger at the
Supreme Council of
Antiquities for supporting the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 6, 2006
The author reflects on the life and experiences of Michael Fitzgerald, the new Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and the Roman Catholic delegate to the League of Arab States and the significant future contributions he can make to Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
The
author criticizes the Minister of Endowment’s decisions
to nationalize the call to prayer, optional prayers during
Ramadān and religious discourse.